Join The Bloggers United Folding@Home Team

After posting earlier this week about an academic who had created his own supercomputer out of eight PS3s, I’ve just learnt that Sony from March 23rd all PS3s will be able to help the Folding@home program. I think this is a great move and I’m sure that this will add much needed processing power to the programme.

I’ve finally installed Folding@Home on my main PC and I’ve created a team called Bloggers United. If you’re interested in joining the team then install Folding@home and when prompted enter 54262 as your team number. That’s it.

If you haven’t come across Folding@Home yet, it is a distributed computing project where people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world.

All of this processing power is used to investigate and study protein folding, which help to find treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

Definitely a more worthy use of your PC and much better than just running a screen-saver!

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